Robert Jones (1845 – 7 January 1927) was an Irish-born Australian politician. He was born in

Longford Longford () is the county town of County Longford in Ireland. It had a population of 10,952 at the 2022 census. It is the biggest town in the county and about one third of the county's population lives there. Longford lies at the meeting of ...

to farmer William Jones and Anne Percival. He arrived in

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in the early 1860s and worked as a shearer, drover and stationhand at

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from 1862 to 1866. From 1872 to 1887 he was the butcher and hotelier at the goldmining town of Hargraves, moving to

Mudgee Mudgee () is a town in the Central West (New South Wales), Central West of New South Wales, Australia. It is in the broad fertile Cudgegong River valley north-west of Sydney and is the largest town in the Mid-Western Regional Council Local gov ...

in 1888. In 1891 he was elected to the

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as the

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member for

. He was defeated in 1898, but returned in 1907 to serve a single term as a Liberal before being defeated again in 1910. Jones died in Mudgee in 1927.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Jones, Robert 1845 births 1927 deaths Free Trade Party politicians Colony of New South Wales people Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Politicians from County Longford Irish emigrants to Australia